Plant Manager

Vestis Services • Pine Bluff, AR • 2d ago

Description

Overview:

Responsible for overall execution of daily plant operation activities while ensuring cost effectiveness, timeliness, and accuracy of processing as well as high product quality and workplace safety for entire production team. Manages staff to ensure safe, standardized, and efficient environmental compliance, equipment & facility maintenance, processing of soiled products: wash and dry aisle; dryer offloading, sorting and bundling, and processing of product for storage or delivery. Monitors production levels and proactively adjusts to ensure product output levels are met in a safe, timely, cost-effective manner, and in line with quality standards. Builds and maintains positive working relationships with Market Center Management team and keeps them informed of plant operation issues. Leverages resources of Operation Support team as needed to address and overcome plant operation issues.

Responsibilities/Essential Functions:

Typical tasks and activities for this job include but are not limited to the items listed below. Additional duties may be assigned from time to time as needed by management.

Safety

Ensure the market center is consistent in its management and application of safety tasks and activities.

Plant Management

Manage the day-to-day production plant operation activities at market center. Ensure processing takes place in a safe, timely, cost-effective, and efficient manner. Activities to be managed include, but are not limited to:

Wastewater / Environmental Compliance

Facility & Equipment Maintenance

Receiving and soil sorting/classification

Wash aisle

Garment Finishing/Sortation

Allied Finishing

Bundling and distribution

Sets and ensure plant operation goals are meet for the efficient, timely, quality and profitable completion of activities for a given product.

Supervise maintenance team to ensure safe, efficient, and cost-effective review of equipment, energy, and wastewater processing.

Work with market center management, identify and implement systems and methods that will improve safety, operating efficiency consistent with operating goals and cost constraints guidelines.

Plant Operations Data and Performance Measures

Analyze and react to production aspects of market center profit and loss (P&L) statement(s). Work with GM to proactively enhance positive results.

Plant Operation Team Oversight and Development

Responsible for the hiring, placement, and removal of production plant operations staff within market center.

The requirements listed above are representative of the job duties to required by all to perform in the various production area that this job standards. Specific work detail and instruction may vary by location and equipment being used.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

Minimum Education/Experience

Post-secondary education (four-years suggested) in Industrial and/or Mechanical Engineering/Technology, business or related discipline or equivalent business/work experience

Four to six years experience in a corporate production environment with management experience included.

Proven track record of increasing responsibility with documented business results

Proven ability to build effective professional relationships cross-departmentally within a market center and operations support.

Preferred Education Experience

Degree in Management or Industrial/Mechanical Engineering/Technology, business or related discipline or equivalent business/work experience

Strong attention to detail with the ability to work within a fast-paced environment, yet willing and able to work effectively with ambiguous circumstances.

Experience with quality program standards such as Lean/Six Sigma Skills an asset.

Demonstrated capability with competencies for the position.

Knowledge Sets

Facility and Maintenance - Knowledge of wastewater, facility and equipment maintenance.

Production and Processing - Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective processing and distribution of laundry. Linen, product and services.

Customer and Personal Service - Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

Personnel and Human Resources - Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.

Location: Pine Bluff, AR

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

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